The legacy and inheritance of every believer

I want to continue studying the moving of the Holy Spirit and this idea of the baptism, the filling, the anointing of the Holy Spirit as manifested in King David. In our last message we saw how through the anointing that David receives from Samuel, it says that the Holy Spirit began to come on David's life from that moment on.

By the way I want to make a small point here. Some brothers may say: well, what we are talking about is not necessarily the baptism of the Holy Spirit but rather something else, it is like an anointing that is received to be used by God in some specific way.

My point is, the way I interpret this, is that the Old Testament approaches the same phenomena of the moving of the Spirit of God in a different way than the New Testament does, but it is actually the same thing being approached in different ways. different. We have to understand that the Old Testament was not so interested so to speak in showing things from a doctrinal perspective of training, teaching for workers, etc. In the Old Testament dispensation, God was showing other things that His Church would use in the future.

What there is not so much sometimes in the Old Testament is a theoretical, theological interpretation of things that happen, but rather the Old Testament is more narrative, more limited in its implications and we have to do more implication to take advantage of doctrinal issues. things that we see recorded in the Old Testament.

Now in the New Testament, through the teachings for example of the Apostle Paul where God is preparing the theological foundations for a Church that would move for centuries after the ascension of Jesus Christ, there is a greater consciousness; thousands of years have passed by. Humanity is more developed intellectually, culturally. There is a more deliberate approach, there is a more developed awareness of the importance of a clear and specific teaching, and theologically complex, and therefore the New Testament goes into details, and labels, and categorization of things much more careful than in the Old Testament, but that doesn't mean it doesn't refer to the same things.

What I am trying to point out is that what we see in the Old Testament is certainly an antecedent, let's say, of what later in the New Testament we are going to see in a more developed way and in greater detail, but it is the same thing. : the anointing of God, the Power of God, the infusion and installation of the filling and the Power of the Holy Spirit in our lives that enables us to do specific tasks in the Christian life.

What we see in the New Testament. God wanted to prepare His Church, prepare His servants for the conquest of the whole world and the spreading of the Gospel, and He told them: Before doing that, as I did with the prophets before, with the priests, with the kings, I I am going to endow with My Spirit.

The difference we see is that, in the Old Testament, what was for a very limited number of people: kings, priests, prophets now becomes the legacy and inheritance of every believer. That is the wonderful difference that the cross of Christ and the Ministry of the Holy Spirit make in the life of every believer, it is that what was once a very, very rare privilege now becomes something that is accessible to every child of God who claim the Presence and Power of God in your life.

Paul says in his first message that what they, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, are seeing, these powerful manifestations of the baptism of the Holy Spirit in those believers who received it at Pentecost is for those who are far away and for those who are near, it is for the that God will call. That is so important, because today there are many churches that speak that the gifts of the Holy Spirit ceased to exist, that this was for the times before the canon of the Church, before the Scripture was fixed in its 66 books that we have and that is no longer necessary, that is a totally false and harmful doctrine, I would say for the people of God that it has no foundation in the Word of the Lord.

What we see clearly through Scripture is that what was once the territory of a group, a handful of individuals chosen under the blood of Christ, His Power, His sacrifice on the cross now becomes the right of every believer, not only in the times of the primitive Church but also in our times, those who are far in time and those who are close in time, those who are far away in geography and those who are close in geography; for as many as the Lord will call.

Every believer today under the Christian dispensation has access and the right to enjoy that powerful anointing of the Holy Spirit in his life. Let's not waste this opportunity. The only thing we see in the Old Testament is that God had limited that power to a few very chosen people because, what the Old Testament shows is the very imperfect manifestation of what God then, under Christ Jesus, would do something universal, powerful, much more encompassing, more powerful and more effective, that is the beauty of what Christ Jesus has made possible on the cross of Calvary.

At this time, every believer can enjoy the Presence and movement of God in his life only by receiving it, claiming it and using it through faith according to the parameters established by Scripture, and therefore we should not waste this. In David's case that anointing came into his life, and then God immediately began to communicate with him, and we see that immediately after this very powerful things happen in David's life.

I wanted to elaborate on this a little more in this meditation but the Lord took it in another direction that also seems very important to me. I believe that what God is saying to you through this meditation is: do not waste that access, that opportunity that every believer has to move into a much more powerful life through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, because just as this moved in The life of Elijah, Elisha, David, Samuel, Saul, Solomon like this also now, through the Spirit of God that dwells within you that you can activate in a very powerful way, it can also move in your life. Use the gift of God that is within you.

May the Lord bless you and until our next meditation.